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Obama May Embrace Emirates Deal as Model for Nuclear Agreements

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — In her final days as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice signed a nuclear-energy accord with a Persian Gulf ally 50 miles from Iran, calling the measure “a powerful and timely model for the world.”

President Barack Obama is likely to agree……………………….. The agreement may help Obama keep his pledge to crack down on the production and smuggling of nuclear materials.

He has called the spread of nuclear weapons “the gravest danger we face.” That threat is increasing: With global electricity demand projected to double by 2030, dozens of countries across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America have expressed interest in nuclear power — and with any nuclear program comes the risk of proliferation………………………….. the Bush administration supported allowing U.S. companies to sell the Abu Dhabi government nuclear technology.

February 2, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA